Methods of Assimilation.

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From an E-mail I received......



"A people can be converted from one faith to the other if given the choice between

conversion and extermination, stubborn individuals being rooted out. To effect the

initial conversion, participation in the public ceremonies and formal language of

the new faith must be required. Sustained counterintelligence must remain on the

alert against backsliders, but formal acceptance will become genuine acceptance if

all public media of expression are denied the vanquished faith.

If immediate wholesale conversion would require military operations that were too

extensive or severe, the same result can be effected by toleration of the

objectionable faith, combined with the issuance of genuine privileges to the new,

preferred faith. The conquered people are left in the private, humble enjoyment of

their old beliefs and folkways; but all participation in public life, whether political,

cultural or economic, is conditioned on acceptance of the new faith. In this

manner, all up-rising members of the society will move in a few generations over

to the new faith in the process of becoming rich, powerful, or learned; what is left

of the old faith will be a gutter superstition, possessing neither power nor majesty.

. . .

If Christians, or democrats, or progressives -- whatever free men may be called --

are put in a position of underprivilege and shame for their beliefs, and if the door

is left open to voluntary conversion, so that anyone who wants to can come over to

the winning side, the winning side will sooner or later convert almost everyone

who is capable of making trouble. . . . . . . in the language of present day Marxists,

this would be described as "utilization of potential leadership cadres from

historically superseded classes"; in the language of practical politics, it means "cut

in the smart boys from the opposition, so that they can't set up a racket of their
own." . . .